Improvement in hanging carriage-bodies



STATES PATENT OFFICE@ SAMUEL N. BEECHER, OF MILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANGING CARRIAGE-BODIES.

Speccation forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,738, dated April 6,1875; application filed January 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL N. BEEGHER, of Milford, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inHanging Carriage-Bodies; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specilication,and represent, in-

Figure 1, side view, Fig. 2, end view, Fig. 3, transverse section.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manner ot' hanging thebody of what is known as the Cramer wagon-that is, a body in which thebottom is secured at each end, and free upon both sides, so as to serveas the spring, the seat resting on the bottom independent of the sides;but this improvement is applicable t0 hanging other wagonbodies.

This invention consists in attaching the elastic bottom oi' the body toa longitudinal bar at each side, and these bars upon a spring at eachend, as more fully hereinafter described.

A A, the two sides of the body; B, the bottom, hung to the body at bothends, and free upon the sides, and of elastic material, so as to afforda spring for the seat C, which rests directly on the bottom independentof the sides, as seen in Fig. 3. This is the Cramer77 construction. Oneach side of the body I arrange an elastic bar, D, attached to the bodyby rigid connections midway, as at a a, but free at each end. Over eachaxle is a halt'- elliptic spring, E, on the ends of which the bars Drest, as in Figs. 1 and 2.

Heretofore the ends of the bars D have been set directly upon the rearaxle and pivot-rocker bar. In such construction there is a disagreeablejar to the elastic bottom, making a serious objection to this otherwisedesirable wagon; but bythe combination of the springs E to take the barsD from direct Contact with the axle, thereby combining the elasticity ofthe end springs with the elastic bottom, this difiiculty is entirelyovercome.

I claim- The combination of the body A, elastic bottom B, elastic sidebars D, rigidly attached to the body, and the end springs E,substantially as described.

SAMUEL N. BEECHER.

Witnesses:

R. F. BEEGHER, FREDRICK B. POPE.

